Senior Research Engineer - Additive Manufacturing

This role will sit within the Additive Manufacturing department, reporting to the Metal AM team lead. This role delivers key responsibilities within the Additive Manufacturing department, supporting technical project proposal and delivery, contribution towards technology strategy, and leadership of a team of high performing engineers. This role will be expected to contribute towards the MTCs metal AM technology strategy, capital investment decisions, technical business development and, proposal of new project work. It is also expected that the successful candidate will support and coaching and mentoring of the wider technical team to support their personal development and development of skills within the AM team and wider MTC. This role requires an individual who is self-motivated, an excellent communicator and able to effectively manage their time. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a dynamic research environment and able to work well and integrate with others with different background and skills. They will be expected to grow their network of influence to broaden the value and impact of AM both internally and externally to the MTC. The successful candidate may be expected to take on leadership and management of a team of engineers (6-8 people), providing technical oversight where suitable, and coaching and mentoring activities to further engineers’ development, facilitating the creation of development objectives and goals aligned to individuals’ personal development plans. This role may engage with project activities in the Defence sector in the future and therefore, candidates should be willing and able to engage in work in this area.